Reminder: you are not your audience

My takeaway – a reminder that each of our life experiences inform our responses and actions when faced with something new.

I recalled previous conversations with family about the content of social media posts effecting employment screenings. For a person in their 60s, life mostly preceded the internet; so, social media is something “new” to be viewed with suspicion.

A teen/preteen today does not remember a world prior to social media. The article indicates teens are editing their app choice and content for the audience and level of permanence desired. A younger person brings less baggage about how things work, or “should be”.

We are all susceptible to thinking that our life experiences are “right” – it’s just how we are wired:

We apply patterns that have worked in the past to new situations, to avoid energy consumptive brain usage. See System 1, 2 Thinking